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Viking girls, WHS boys win Hopkins Track Relays

The Hopkins girls and Wayland boys emerged as winners of the Hopkins Track Invitational Saturday. The Viking girls scored 165.5 points, more than 40 more than the runners-up I;n the…

Editor May 4, 2024

Community Notices

Special election May 7 on non-homestead renewal

Voters in the Wayland Union School District will be asked to approve the renewal of an 18.387-mill non-homestead tax levy in a special election Tuesday, May 7. The non-homestead millage…

Editor May 4, 2024

Sports

Wildcat softball team 13-0 since infamous ‘Bad Day’

It would be a keen grasp of the obvious to say that Wayland softball is on a roll. Coach Cheri Ritz’s Lady Wildcats claimed their 13th consecutive victory on the…

Editor May 4, 2024

Community Notices

Gun Lake group opposes Pickeral Cove expansion

The Gun Lake Protection Association is calling for members and residents to show up at a meeting of Zoning Board of Appeals at the Tyden Center in Hastings Monday, May…

Editor May 4, 2024

Sports

Martin track teams lose dual meet against Gobles

The Martin boys’ and girls’ track teams both lost in a dual meet Wednesday against Gobles. The boys lost 79-54 and the girls 97-37. Junior Alex Morin won the 800-meter…

Editor May 3, 2024

Articles

Leighton to seek 2 millage requests on Aug. 6 ballot

The Leighton Township Board Thursday night decided to place two millage requests on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot. Voters will be asked to approve a one-mill increase for roads,…

Editor May 3, 2024

Articles

Galloway Landings air park request granted again

Kate Sheltema outlined her objections to the proposed air park expansion. Galloway Landings essentially got what it wanted Thursday night after a public hearing on his new plans to expand…

Editor May 3, 2024

Sports

Vikings in a 3-way O-K Silver softball race

There’s a three-way race under way for this year’s O-K Silver Conference softball championship. Grandville Calvin Christian Thursday in a makeup game muddied the waters even more by turning back…

Editor May 3, 2024

Obituaries

Former Hopkins school secretary Dorothy Wilson dies

Dorothy Ann (Opperman) Wilson died Tuesday, April 30, at the age of 92, in Kalamazoo Rose Arbor, Centrica. Dorothy was born March 3, 1932, in Grand Rapids to the late…

Editor May 3, 2024

Columns

Army Bob: AntiSemitism apparently still alive and well

by Robert M. Traxler The progressive movement has evolved. The cancel culture would have gone after anyone who disagrees with the politically correct movement; race, color, creed, nation of origin,…

Editor May 3, 2024